Studies social stress, ethnicity and health, and social psychological factors in health and well-being. His recent work has examined the role of early adolescent self-derogation in problem behaviors in young adulthood. His current projects include a paper that evaluates age contingent effects as an underlying factor in the explanation of the "Cost of Caring" hypothesis, and a study on the significance of physical limitations in the fear of being victim of crime.

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Sociology of Mental Health and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Ethnicity and Health
Social Stress and the Stress Process

Eliassen, A. Henry, John Taylor and Donald A. Lloyd. 2005. “Subjective Religiosity and Depression in the Transitions to Adulthood.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion44:187-99.

Turner, R. Jay, John Taylor, and Karen Van Gundy. 2004. “Personal Resources and Depression in the Transition to Adulthood: Ethnic Comparisons.” Journal of Health and Social BehaviorÂ 45:34-52.

Taylor, John and R. Jay Turner. 2002. "Perceived Discrimination, Social Stress, and Depression in the Transition to Adulthood: Racial Contrasts." Social Psychology QuarterlyÂ 65:213-225.

Taylor, John and R. Jay Turner. 2001 "A Longitudinal Study of the Role and Significance of Mattering for Depressive Symptoms." Journal of Health and Social BehaviorÂ 42:309-324.

Schieman, Scott and John Taylor. 2001. "Statuses, Roles, and the Sense of Mattering."Â Sociological PerspectivesÂ 44:469-484.

Schieman, Scott, Karen Van Gundy, and John Taylor. 2001. "Reexamining Age Patterns in Depression in Two RepresentativeÂ U.S.Â Surveys." Journal of Health and Social BehaviorÂ 42:80-91

"I became interested in demographic phenomena not so much for the phenomena
per se, nor for the science they inspired, nor for their political, economic, and social
effects, but as signs. For they are the invisible signs of what has been happening
below the surface and reveal collective attitudes toward life and death, at times almost
subconscious and usually kept hidden." Phillipe Ariès, 20th century French Historian